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Father Ray Kemp on why he began teaching at Georgetown University ~\n\n". . .a guy named Big John Thompson . . . said, 'You gotta teach a class.'. . .'I want a class where these kids can bring their experiences to college and not just sit there and study about all the black adolescent males in trouble. How do you bring their experiences into the equation, into the classroom?'\n\nAndy Ockershausen and Our Town guest Father Ray Kemp in studio interview\n\nAndy Ockershausen:\tThis is Andy Ockershausen, and this is Our Town. And I'm so happy to have one of my favorite men in the whole world. We call him the Priest for Life. He's a native Washingtonian. He just celebrated his fiftieth anniversary in the Archdiocese of Washington, he's my good friend, Father Raymond Kemp. Ray, welcome to Our Town.\nFather Ray Kemp:\tHi Andy. It's good to be with you.\nAndy Ockershausen:\tIt's incredible that you're here in civilian clothes, which obviously you're not retired, but you gave it up for a while. You won't remember but I do, it's one of the fondest things that ever happened to me. Sincerely Ray, was to meet you in a beautiful watering Georgetown, called the guards. I was with a young lady named Kathi who's a good friend of Janice's too, Kathi Bowers. She said, "This is my friend, Ray Kemp. He's a priest."\n\tI said, "You gotta be kidding me. He's sitting in a bar. He's not in his uniform." She said, "I don't care. He is a Catholic priest from Silver Spring. I've known him all my life."\n Andy O and Father Ray Kemp Met in a Watering Hole\nFather Ray Kemp:\tI love Kathi Bowers. I love Kathi Bowers. I love watering holes.\n \tI think that Jesus met an awful lot of people in watering holes. They were outside maybe, not inside but ... Kathi Bowers is one of the great people in the world. She married well too. We had a good time. \nAndy Ockershausen:\tWell you know, growing up with people and running into them like that and being part of Washington, being in Georgetown. Frankly, Georgetown was not one of my travel places because I'm a north-east guy from 13th and D, Holy Comforter. \nFather Ray Kemp:\tRight.\nAndy Ockershausen:\tThat you know so well. \nFather Ray Kemp:\tEastern High School.\nAndy Ockershausen:\tAnd to be in Georgetown is special and from that day on I followed your career. I will remind you of some things that we did for you when the WMAL TV days were alive.\nFather Ray Kemp:\tYou're great.\nAndy Ockershausen:\tBut you, you're a native, you went to high school, I mean grammar school in Silver Spring. \nOn Growing Up in Our Town - Catholic | Jesuit School Education\nFather Ray Kemp:\tSt. Michaels in Silver Spring and the Sisters of Holy Names of Jesus and Mary. My sister joined the order. My brother went to that grade school as well, St. Michael's in Silver Spring. Carrol Ann is at, Sister Carrol Ann Kemp, and she's at Gonzaga.\nAndy Ockershausen:\tWell, St. Michael's is a parish. Did they have a church there too, and a different school?\nSt. Michael's Parish\nFather Ray Kemp:\tThey had a church. I said my first Mass there, May the 7th, 1967.\nAndy Ockershausen:\tThirty days in May, '67.\nFather Ray Kemp:\tYep.\nAndy Ockershausen:\tRay, that's wonderful! You look so good. You obviously thrived as a priest, because then you decided to go to school when you went to DeMatha.\nDeMatha Catholic High Schools\nFather Ray Kemp:\tYes.\nAndy Ockershausen:\tThat's a long commute for you, wasn't it?\nFather Ray Kemp:\tThat was a long commute. Some of us got together and pulled cars over there. Sometimes we hitch-hiked. Remember hitchhiking?\nAndy Ockershausen:\tOh do I!\nFather Ray Kemp:\tWe hitchhiked to and from a lot today, mostly from. We'd hitchhike from DeMatha. I was there for two years. I met a guy named Ben Wills, his family owned the little place, you know Reed Wills and that crowd? \nAndy Ockershausen:\tOh, yeah.\nOn How and Why Father Kemp Attended Gonzaga College High School